Black Pumas has announced their self-titled debut album. The band is led by Grammy winning producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton. Burton arrived in Austin after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied
Miss Colombia takes Lido Pimienta's ecstatic hybridity to a new level building on the "nu" intersection of electronica and cumbia established by her 2016 Polaris Prize-winning La Papessa as Canadian album of the year.
Classic album whose sole objective is the celebration of Afro-Cuban music, Vámonos Pa'l Monte is a hymn to freedom, a remedy against injustice. Eddie Palmieri, eternally rebellious, gives new strength to salsa at incorporating elements of jazz.
DJ El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo have chosen eight impossibly hard-to-find Venezuelan jewels, originally released between 1966 and 1978, reissued here for the first time on vinyl.
A rare salsa session, originally issued on a very small label. Fantastic sound throughout – very soulful lead vocals from Felix Santini and a fair bit of jazzy solos on flute and tenor from the legendary Mauricio Smith. Side two is especially great, with
